[OSX-Users] Snow Leopard Lock Ups

[Christopher Gutteridge]

I wish I'd not bothered to upgrade to Snow Leopard (so early). I've 
noticed no improvements I give a damn about and have had to hard-reset 
about once every 48 hours when it locks up.

Mostly I use:
Firefox 3.5.3, thunderbird, Terminal, VLC

Every now and then it starts locking up. I can't tell exactly why, but 
it can't start new apps, current apps start freezing, one by one, the 
terminal won't execute new commands (just hangs when you try). 
Eventually everything locks up and a hard-reset is the only option.

I found a list of software issues: http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/ but 
none of them explain a total OS lockup. I also run dropbox and sophos, 
although I don't really care about them, so it could be them causing 
problems.

dang. My Mac just lost the reliability which made it good. :(

-- 
Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg

Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/

Web Projects Manager, University of Southampton, 
School of Electronics and Computer Science